Upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 problem

[Nils Kassube]

Phil Sexton wrote:
> I have read the upgrade pages and guides I found at
> <http://www.ubuntu.com/> and the update manager reports that I need
> more space in /boot, which puzzles me.  I can't imagine why /boot is
> used rather than the root partition, /.

I suppose, /boot is only needed for the new kernel.

> I have a separate /boot partition and df -h reports (for the
> relevant partitions):
> /dev/sda3             9.2G  5.9G  2.9G  68% /
> /dev/sda1              74M   34M   36M  49% /boot

Free space 36M in /boot is probably not enough.

> Does anyone know how to use / rather than /boot for the upgrade?

I would copy the contents of /boot to a new directory, umount the /boot 
partition and move the contents of the new directory to /boot. That would 
be something like this (untested):

sudo cp -a /boot /boot.tmp
sudo umount /boot
sudo mv /boot.tmp/* /boot
sudo rmdir /boot.tmp

And don't forget to remove the entry for /boot from your /etc/fstab.


Nils